Story By Lalla-ji, The Priest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD ABAB EFEF GBGB EHEH IJIJ KFKF BLBL MINI| He loved the Plant with a keen delight | A |
| A passionate fervour strange to see | B |
| Tended it ardently day and night | A |
| Yet never a flower lit up the tree | B |
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| The leaves were succulent thick and green | C |
| And sessile out of the snakelike stem | D |
| Rose spine like fingers alert and keen | C |
| To catch at aught that molested them | D |
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| But though they nurtured it day and night | A |
| With love and labour the child and he | B |
| Were never granted the longed for sight | A |
| Of a flower crowning the twisted tree | B |
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| Until one evening a wayworn Priest | E |
| Stopped for the night in the Temple shade | F |
| And shared the fare of their simple feast | E |
| Under the vines and the jasmin laid | F |
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| He later wandering round the flowers | G |
| Paused awhile by the blossomless tree | B |
| The man said May it be fault of ours | G |
| That never its buds my eyes may see | B |
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| Aslip it came from the further East | E |
| Many a sunlit summer ago | H |
| It grows in our Jungles said the Priest | E |
| Men see it rarely but this I know | H |
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| The Jungle people worship it say | I |
| They bury a child around its roots | J |
| Bury it living the only way | I |
| To crimson glory of flowers and fruits | J |
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| He spoke in whispers his furtive glance | K |
| Probing the depths of the garden shade | F |
| The man came closer with eyes askance | K |
| The child beside them shivered afraid | F |
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| A cold wind drifted about the three | B |
| Jarring the spines with a hungry sound | L |
| The spines that grew on the snakelike tree | B |
| And guarded its roots beneath the ground | L |
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| After the fall of the summer rain | M |
| The plant was glorious redly gay | I |
| Blood red with blossom Never again | N |
| Men saw the child in the Temple play | I |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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